The Berlin Blockade was lifted 70 years ago, on May 12, 1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin, the German capital ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sep. 25, 1948. It is republished unedited in its original form. Life in Berlin for Americans these days is still fairly normal ...

Seventy years ago, in May, 1949, much to the relief of many in the world, the Soviets ended their 327-day blockade of West Berlin, located about 110 miles into Soviet-controlled East Germany. Ending ...

Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade—at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the question ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian relief to ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - Traute Grier's childhood was overshadowed by the bombings of World War II, and as she grew up, the hunger and uncertainty of the Berlin Blockade. Grier was a teenager in 1948 when ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent ...

Am Morgen betreten Dutzende Menschen die Kreuzung Warschauer Straße/Mühlenstraße, zünden Pyrotechnik und rufen verbotene Parolen. Es bleibt nicht die einzige Versammlung. Berlin (dpa/bb) - Die Polizei ...

Somewhere in the Kremlin, the Communists appear to keep a Machiavellian UNIVAC with buttons, lights and levers that can bring into operation any one of 10,000 devices of skulduggery. Press the button ...